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1[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Tangled2001and2010_5740.jpg]]
2[[caption-width-right:350:On the left: A 2001 thriller movie.\
3On the right: [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Seventy feet of golden hair.]]]]
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5->''"There's this bald boy, who can control the wind... Oops! Wrong WesternAnimation/{{Avatar|The Last Airbender}}..."''
6-->-- '''[[WebVideo/BumReviews Chester A. Bum]]''' reviewing Creator/JamesCameron's ''Film/{{Avatar}}''
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8This is when several works share a name. They could even be different media. And yet they're completely unrelated.
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10When the names are slightly different, it might be a case of TranslationMatchmaking. If the titles are identical to each other except for an added article in either ("a," "the," etc.), for instance ''Film/{{Following}}'' and ''Series/TheFollowing,'' we'll count them too.
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12See also RecycledTitle, which is when a work set in the same fictional universe uses the same title as an earlier one.
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14This is so prevalent that Website/{{Wikipedia}} developed the Disambiguation system to address this and similar issues (like common surnames). So have we, actually -- see the AmbiguityIndex for a list.
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16For those unfamiliar with intellectual property laws, titles can't be copyrighted and it's totally legal to name a work with the same name as another one; however, if the title is trademarked, then you can't. Trademark covers a ''franchise'', not a single work/series.
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18'''Care must be taken to make sure this doesn't become a militant InNameOnly. This is strictly when two works just happen to share the same name, not an adaptation/sequel/remake that bears no resemblance to the previous work'''.
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20!!Example subpages (alphabetical by title):
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22%% Do not separate by medium.
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25[[index]]
26* [[SimilarlyNamedWorks/NumbersToC #-C]]
27* [[SimilarlyNamedWorks/DToG D-G]]
28* [[SimilarlyNamedWorks/HToL H-L]]
29* [[SimilarlyNamedWorks/MToP M-P]]
30* [[SimilarlyNamedWorks/QToS Q-S]]
31* [[SimilarlyNamedWorks/TToV T-V]]
32* [[SimilarlyNamedWorks/WToZ W-Z]]
33[[/index]]

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